Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Widespread in hard-hit Detroit is a bleak pessimism that contrasts sharply with the city's traditional Midwestern spirit. Detroiters do not count their city as especially beautiful or rich in culture, but they treasure its name for thrust, energy, confidence. Their favorite adjective: "dynamic." For generations young men leaving farms and small towns in the Midwest and the South have headed hopefully for bustling Detroit. One of the city's most cherished residents is a relentlessly optimistic versifier, Edgar Guest...
...Sight. In a Rome nightclub two months ago with Brazil's metals-rich Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, Linda lost a jade earring. Sympathetically, the 41-year-old Baby suggested a trip to Hong Kong for a replacement, and off they flew. When their shopping was done, they decided to go on around the world to Rio. Linda collected a few baubles along the way-including a $4,000 diamond "engagement ring...
...head, and there may be as many as 4,500 customers a night (the crowd is politely asked to leave after the first show to make room for the second shift). With such a take the club can afford weekly salaries that make even roulette-rich Vegas boggle: $40,000 a week for Jerry Lewis' act, $34,000 for Harry Belafonte's, $25,000 for Judy Garland...
MOTEL SURGE will lure more note's into $1.5 billion yearly business. Salt Lake City's rich, old (since 1911") Hotel Utah will soon complete West's biggest (154 units), costliest (about $3.5 million) motel within two blocks of hotel. Features: four plush "penthouses," swimming pool, underground auditorium with capacity...
...answer that airmen dislike but the one they may be forced to by CAB's painful delay is a return to subsidy. Either that, or the industry may see a rash of mergers, leading off with Northeast, which won the rich New York-Florida run last year and still lost $1,000,000 in the first quarter of 1958. National might merge with Northeast to eliminate a rival on the Florida route. Delta and American could also gain entry, help solve their own problems by taking over the struggling line...